Hey guys I am very much looking forward to today's episode because it's about something that I spent most of my adult life doing and I will never have to do again.

And that's dating. I'm married now, but I dated throughout most of my 20s and got married at age 30.

So I feel like I have a lot of thoughts on the matter on the topic of dating and I'm

excited to talk about it because I think that one of the sources of a lot of

confusion, frustration, pain, lack of really success in some ways in

our personal life, disillusionment is misunderstandings around dating.

And the purpose of dating, how to date, what it's for, and really how to live love in our lives,

how to find relationships and create relationships

that are based out of based on love and this of course you know especially means

romantic relationships and what does a romantic relationship even mean.

So for today's episode I will be talking about six principles for dating.

Six things that I think are really important to keep in mind when dating for a successful

dating relationship which will lead to long-term finding love, building a family,

and also talk about love, What is love and some thoughts on really the big picture

of all of this in today's world of today's scene of love. I'll be drawing on my

personal experiences I'll be sharing just about

things I've learned over the years and I'll be talking a little bit of philosophy

theology about what the point of all these things are and what love really means. So let's dive right in. First of all, there's a lot of confusion today about what is love. Is love a feeling?

You know, people talk about falling in and out of love we hear about the latest celebrity

relationship to fall apart and people say this was a great divorce because we

just weren't meant to be together anymore so now we're happily apart and then they

meet somebody else and they pledge themselves to that person for life and their

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